Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they opened up new territories of violence. The war would not end. For all the professed incredulity about it, the My Lai massacre has dripped acids onto the nation's conviction of its own innocence. At home, the Sharon Tate murders were so incomprehensible as to excite a stunned awe at what orgies of violence are possible. In the presence of such insanities, many Americans have grown introspective. It is a reaction built on residues of abhorrence going back through sad, internal video tapes to Nov. 22, 1963. Americans seem to be convincingly sick of violence...
...felt very proud that they had contacted me in good faith." he said. "I was pretty much in awe...
...failing miserably. Ross could have made an intelligent farce out of the spectacle of set designers and hairdressers, love children and La Mama actors rationalizing Fellini's social-psychological-religious urges while the director himself thumbs his nose at every available theory. But Hughes never quite conquers her awe of the proceedings, a flaw compounded by her cinematic illiteracy. (At one point, she refers to the famous film director Luigi Visconti...
...made more difficult by the military itself, and would get coldly furious at the blunders of admirals and generals. At a luncheon given by Rivers and attended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the entire civilian hierarchy of the Pentagon and major defense contractors, a guest observed half in awe, half in criticism: "I have beheld the military-industrial complex, and it sits on the right hand of L. Mendel Rivers." Rivers would not have considered that a bad epitaph...
Besides, Scorpio had been an Aquarius rooter from the start. Although he had the same affectionately ambiguous feelings toward him that he once held for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he followed Aquarius' erratic career with a kid brother's awe and expectation. To go directly from The Bobbsey Twins to The Naked and the Dead was not an experience one overcame easily...